Poker ban. Notwithstanding Pennsylvania as state was considering the legalization of online casinos, Michael Fitzpatrickf, a U.S. Congressman from the state has introduced a new two-page bill legislation with the purpose of prohibiting the games at the federal level.
A co-sponsor of Fitzpatrick’s bill is fellow Pennsylvania Congressman Charles Dent, who himself tried to get RAWA stuff incorporated into a bigger legislation. A RAWA project bill, assayed by several Congressmen over the past few years, has consistently failed, but finding a weighted bill as path for the prohibition remains a questionable threat.
Fortunately, his anti-poker bill failed to gain enough support but the Poker Players Alliance expects those efforts to return next year even though they communicated via twitter RAWA was “successfully muted” in 2016.
Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson has made it his mission to get the Wire Act “restored” because he thinks games on the web hurt the brick-and-mortar industry.
The commercial gambling market in America is worth $40 billion a year, and Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands is the largest casino developer in the world, based on revenue.
